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Now here, now there, his sprightly dear i With airy lightness darted. As fresh when miles and miles away As when they just bad started. The fleecy flakes kept coming down. The rambling roadways hiding; Yet on and on they flew along tike shadows swiftly gliding. But ore his journey was quite o’er St Nick met trouble dire; The roads kept Ailing up apace. The snow kept piling higher. And from his sight the earth was hid By flakes so thickly flying. He couki not find the road at alt 1 But still ha kept on trytag. Hera was Indeed for Santa Class An awkward situation. Aad one that (Or the moment tilled . His mind with con s ternati o n: The Idndty soul was sad with fear That on the morrow morning Some disappointed Httls friends His absence would be mourning. • ■* Stn. trusting that kind Providence Would help him ta his trouble. St Hick his faithful retndser Meeds Their efforts urged to double; And often with a ch ee r ing word The jaded beasts he aided. Whlleon ahead through snowdrifts deep To And the road he waded. At length, amid the Hying flakes. By chance old Santa sighted Not far away a signpost tall. ■ Whereat he was delighted. The sign upon the post contained The welcome Information That close at hand the road ran straight Unto his destination. V With hope renewed the good old saint Along the roadway struggled; • And soon he reached a sleeping town Which in a valley snuggled. Here ended Santa’s Christmas calls Aad here his sleigh he lightened. Then homeward quickly off be sped Ere Sol the landscape brightened. Ftounf B. Wtacx. - A MERRY CHRISTMAS. Aei It a flam One for Yi Scarcely lean wonderful than the of the first Christmas night is the mystery of the perpetuation of the It is a far cry enough from the shepherds who tended their flocks the hillside of Judea, and the bo¬ ring kings who followed the star • « to, let ns the aver the modern of and IX faith characteristics are not exactly of the the former, pre nor do the latter betray sufficient keen in things to the that they wornld leave kingdoms and go to follow a mysterious sign Yet withal Christmas brings its to Pi t ../ ' ~ _ W \ 0M 2 ** IT 15 THE BL.ESSBD CHRISTJ^fVS -TIDE *, THE CHRISTMAS UQHT5 ARE AU- AQL.OW^-WHlTTlER. ’ these as well as to their widely differ¬ ent prototypes of nearly two thousand years ago. The echo of the angelic voices that sang of peace- on earth, good will to men, still resounds in the heavens on Christmas night: and broth¬ er is reconciled to brother, old enmi¬ ties are laid away, past sins forgiven, and the bonds of friendship and family affection drawn tighter over the Christ- ; / » i « J / aw.-. J !'.' / f V 4 | » / ■ It F * • I *». i / • * V' .41 / ) I // \ J 4 f, i f t . I a } i t <• t \ ,V'■ ' * * ; » j- J t i / t .* C f ’ • / / ^ ■■ /* X - 11 I * 4 I * t.l »* >, • . •/ */ t} :\ f t, t i Y 1 ki ft 4/ - rt* / / I f L >x • > !/ y : , :;y C J t- r / / »• t t * ' 4. 'A, V f \ 7/ v -■ ■ m N* 'n t ) ■ v / •; •' 'V 7^- ' .y-. V tfA A'/ l n! f V „ V •»■ r p . m . # / j ■■ y f / :.a- y m / ' /, S/t, / i // ■/ ■Jr I, // 11 / fy r .f , I /* 4 * i •i I ' 4 - -/ / ; t sk's?' t r / A, • % .> .. SA - / J / />■>} ft * "r- A # . -i? 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If yon have no fireside of your own to enliven, seek out the desolate hearth of some unfortunate brother. There are many forlorn little ones to whom an and a picture book would be a foretaste of Heaven. Play Santa (flans to such, and you will find your Merry Christmas in the reflection of their in¬ nocent delight; or carry your greeting and your gift to Borne aged and lonely oa earth, and a hi seeing that will rta a hundredfold. monopoly of the If they do not we can go to We have out WHAT DOES IT MEAN? A Happy New Year! What does it mean? Are not these words often thrown out as a greeting without thought or depth of meaning? Is it a year in which to ourselves come wealth and health, prosperity and friendship? One in pursuit of fleeting pleasure and filled with self-centered interest? Ncl Rather 1st the wish to each aad all, as the New Year flat with all itaopf ittm,thatthe of MM may b Dathv for t aroand, aad that hi SfyarNH* f " | A ITHIN This winter the quiet morning hoses fair. at & The ergsa musts softly sir; thrills Upon the Uatenlnc Then, mla«lln< with the orgsa » The oholrt ewset vokss sonafl “While shepherds wstebed thsii night AU nested on the mud.” And straightway, from thet ifj wandering ti A Within my Ihwsgalnmy moil Her dear arms olsa S And%4°eh " f The moonlight tails across tht In bars o( silver light. And many s merry slslg The silenoo of the plgl Iffy heed upon her In childish trust The while she sings of “la meanest g»»b act ■ i y The pssllhg organ note The Christmas hymn I «U la my soeuatossed The rev rent throng i But Thera sweet echoes sad loir aU day! jrhl The memory of i And of the MA ODD NEW YEAR 0 Way* ^ Thera used to he a custom many yews ago in placing all Year’s gifts on the floor hi a d where the recipient* scran them on their knees, ■ and brought out other than their t were fined & certain sum whk be expended in addition to cheer. Bags of bran and h shavings were nsed to oonoeil in, and the whole proo se s wai difficult and amusing ae possl custom hack of giving New Year’i dates to the Saxons, wht festival with great ceremony I ing. In the fifteenth eenttu were the most appreciated of enta, being of the fineat qha handsomely decorated with silver embroidery. A neat ear a sum of money incl A lord chancellor Thomas Moore, had won for a lady New client, Year’s and day sht him on ' glares which had fort] into thentj the gloves, but saying that such Poor One of the most nature is a maafe; in a vagoe way that th* ; not be a pair of awapende lag set, but when h* eoga Imbecility, and gives money and tells her to 1 -Boston Globe. — * Little Mss Down ---- A &